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130 quotesTalent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Talent
Jules Renard
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Writers and Writing
Anne Rice
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Writers and Writing
Jean Paul Richter
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Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.
Editing and Editors
Harold Wallace Ross
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Writers and Writing
Leo Rosten
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Writers and Writing
Bertrand Russell
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Fools and Foolishness
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.
Examinations
W. C. Sellar
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Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
Virtue
William Shakespeare
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
Movies
Sam Shepard
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Writers and Writing
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
Editing and Editors
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Writers and Writing
Dr. Walter Smith
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Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.
Aggression
Ted Solotaroff
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Writers and Writing
Susan Sontag
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Books - Reading
Steven Spielberg
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Critics and Criticism
John Steinbeck
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Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Scholars and Scholarship
J. M. Synge
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Writers and Writing
Henry David Thoreau
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Grammar
Mark Twain
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Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.
Poetry and Poets
Source Unknown
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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Heroes and Heroism
Source Unknown
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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Writers and Writing
Source Unknown
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun